They exist, but you have to look harder. And they often cost a lot more too
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Ace0fBlades@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I greatly miss the ability to simply purchase a program on a disk for a given year and just have access to that tool.
algorithmae@lemmy.sdf.org 6 months ago
heeplr@feddit.de 6 months ago
otoh you have stuff like FreeCAD or OpenSCAD completely free and usable AND you could modify it as you please.
Back then FOSS CAD was barely usable.
RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I think the thing people wish for was a little bit of polish in their open source tools.
I love kicad, but it used to have some really rough edges in spite of being simpler compared to something like Altium.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 6 months ago
This is the modern “choice”:
Paid software that exploits their own paying customers’ data and pushes regular ads for their own or for other products.
FOSS software that respects it’s users but also is nearly incapable of doing the job it’s supposed to.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The FOSS stuff can do the job. You just need to tweak these 10 config files because it doesn’t come with sensible defaults. Oh, and it’s built against a different version of those libraries. Better downgrade two and upgrade that third one. Actually, just fork and modify the source. Much easier. What were we trying to do again?
equidamoid@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Freecad is… rough. But, it has python API, and that’s what I ended up using for almost all my stuff (there also was a period of using cadquery, but installing it is a horrible pain, so I gve up).
Also using onshape every now and then, but many things are just too annoying to do with a gui.